Man, 39, becomes first person in England and Wales to be convicted of cyberflashing

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Let no-one say things can't get better.

Sending unwanted dick pics is illegal in the UK now. Spread the news.

https://news.sky.com/story/man-39-becomes-first-person-in-england-and-wales-to-be-convicted-of-cyberflashing-13070350

The only downside to this is there is NO way the police can handle the number of arrests that will now need to be made. However, I think this new law is a great way of targeting male stalkers and sex offenders as online stuff is one of the first types of harassment they use. Also we can expect a lot of harassing TRAs to get hit by this.

@EBearhug What do they ask you to send? A photo of the vulva area? I mean, really? Is it to check how flexible you are?! 😂And do they just say, 'Do you want me to send you a photo of my dick before we meet for coffee?'

If I ever get divorced I am 100% staying single, the dating game nowadays is definitely not for me.

Glad it is now illegal though, agree there won't be enough police to deal, they don't even bother with all the men viewing images of child abuse on the regular.

Slips into the comments to leave you a dick pic.

<swoon>😍

Of course I now expect a photo of your tits in return!

(The feathered type obviously I'm not THAT sort of poster!)

As much as my view of men is low these days, I do not think all men have sent a dick pic.

Some of the guys who do it are not necessarily getting off on the flasher aspect, it is more that their whole self is focused on that floppy appendage. They are fascinated by it so assume that women will be too. Men are basic. It is literally like a baboon showing its arse.

😆at the previous two comments

How about this table! It has a tit hierarchy 😉

Look at all those great tits!

I don't want pics of number 4! It might be the wrong robin!

I did OLD for about 6/7 months last year and had 1 dick pic, 1 naked arse in the mirror and several in the bath with bubbles or laying in the bed with a towel both covering the vital bits and asked if I wanted to see more - I always declined and only once was that ignored and the photo sent anyway.

So while there are men out there who get off on sending unsolicited dick pics, it’s a long way from it being all men imo

In any case, it doesn't matter how many ask, because it is about unsolicited ones, and it only needs just one to be wrong. I assume some get off on the flashing aspect of it, else I don't understand why they do it.

Me neither. I'm going to take a guess and estimate that the number of women who have been persuaded to meet up on the basis of an unsolicited dick pic, are in single figures.

Apart from anything else, it would indicate a huge, deal breaking gap in their understanding of women.

glad to hear about this law, though.

Rubbish. Most men haven’t sent one.

My Nigel is a very suspicious character & wouldn't send a dick pic because he would immediately assume he was about to be blackmailed.

Some of the guys who do it are not necessarily getting off on the flasher aspect, it is more that their whole self is focused on that floppy appendage. They are fascinated by it so assume that women will be too. Men are basic. It is literally like a baboon showing its arse

That reminds me of a comment I read years ago about men and their mobile phones - the reason they were playing with them and displaying them so much is because they couldn't play with or display their other best friend in public, so they displaced that onto their phones. A display tactic about their place in the male heirarchy - like the bloke who sat opposite me on the train home one night with a Blackberry resting on each knee and trying to make eye contact. LOOK, I AM TOP MONKEY, I HAVE TWO PHONES AND I'M DISPLAYING THEM BECOS I CAN'T THUMP MY CHEST AND SWING FROM THE BRANCHES.

Not so sure how or if it applies nowadays when EVERYONE'S on their phones.

https://mol.im/a/13078411

It's quite literally the definition of a sex offender to expose yourself and is a good predictor of predatory behaviour. Technology makes it easy, but flashing is often a precursor crime to other, contact based sex offending. Men who do it deserve the attention of the authorities

He was already a convicted sex offender after admitting to stripping off in a doctors' surgery and covering his genitals with hand sanitizer last summer.

Dear God 🤦‍♀️

I hadn't actually read it yet I got distracted! Dear lord!

He then rubbed hand sanitizer on his genitals and walked around the foyer for five minutes. He left, crossed the road and approached a resident before police were called.
Then on July 23, he approached a group of young people in Mopsies Park, Basildon while only wearing his trainers and engaged in a 'sexual conversation' with the victims and 'kissed one girl and hugged another.

Hawkes was spared jail for those incidents, blaming the incidents on his PTSD and heavy cocaine use, denying a sexual attraction to children.

Well he sounds an absolute treat. Think dick pics is least of this one’s problems.

And that’s how it works in the courts these days then ‘sorry I got my cock out at the doctors and wandered down the street with is on display but I’m a Coke head’ and the judge thinks ‘fair enough, no jail necessary for you son.

I think you need to re evaluate the male company you keep

And I'm normally a poster who has to caveat NAMALT as No But An Awful Lot Of Men Are Like That in discussions like this.

But yes OP, a small step in the right direction

Or have his identity stolen

I'm glad they specified he was an Arsenal fan NAAFALT!

He...he put handsanitiser on his genitals! Won't that sting. You're supposed to keep it out of eyes.

@EBearhugWhat do they ask you to send? A photo of the vulva area? I mean, really? Is it to check how flexible you are?! 😂And do they just say, 'Do you want me to send you a photo of my dick before we meet for coffee?'

Usually they ask for something like, "can I see more pics?" (My dating profile has just one pic, of my face.) "Have you any full length pics? Any unclothed? I'd love to see your tits. Show me your pussy, do you shave or is it full bush?" And for them, it's likely to be, "Shall I send more pics?" and then I'll get one topless (regardless of whether they've a torso to be proud of,) and maybe headless whole body in front of a mirror with pants on, and then it'll be, "do you want the rest of me?" or, "wait till you see what's under this," and I'll be thinking, it's a dick, you've all got dicks, and you're so very proud of them, and very predictable, and really, there's nothing special about them, because there are so many of them, and I don't need to see a picture, whatever you think.

I don't think it's to show flexibility- I could just stand in front of a mirror, were I to indulge them.

And then if you've actually met and had a date (which went okay,) it'll be, "look what you've done to me, let me show you," like getting an erection is worthy of a Nobel prize or something. To be fair, with some men in their 50s, it can be an achievement, but I still don't need to see it.

Some of them have the sense to send me links about things like history or linguistics or art, but they still want to send dick pics too.

I think the only one I actually solicited was from a friend when I got a slightly panicked message asking how to remove glitter, because he picked up his daughter's soap in the shower. (I used the power of Mumsnet to advise him, once I'd stopped laughing.)

What a lot of shite.